Word: litte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty at Harvard has previously served at Amherst, Michigan, and Yale Universities, and at New Hampshire State Normal, and his former connections with Harvard have been as a student, 1897 to 1899; as Phi Beta Kappa Poet, 1916; and as the recipient of the honorary degree of Litt...
Unfulfilled ambition of the late, superserious Sir Edward Grey was to write a leader for the London Times Literary Supplement on the works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. This summer, bald, easygoing Author Wodehouse received an honorary D. Litt. from Oxford, drew plaudits for his style (TIME, July 10). Though many a lesser humorist has crept up behind the Wodehouse technique, tried to sprinkle salt on its tail, only the Old Master himself can really catch it. He does it by rewriting everything at least three times, concentrating and sharpening his effervescent prolixity. Thus revised, markedly improved since its serialization...
SABER: Johnson (Y) defeated Doyle (H), 5-3. Litt (Y) defeated Doyle (H), 5-3, Batchelder (H), 5-3. Batchelder (H) defeated Scully (Y), 5-4, and Johnson (Y), 5-3. Doyle (H) defeated Scully...
Robert Frost (Litt. D., '37, honorary), poet and teacher, will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner tonight, and will speak afterward in the dining room on "The Figure a Poem Makes," Illustrated with readings from his poems...
Recognizing Jaeger's attainments in the fields of classical literature, philology, archaeology, and philosophy, the University conferred an honorary Litt, D. degree on him at the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936 with the citation "A critical student of the great master who once dominated the universities, an eminent teacher of the eternal wisdom of Aristotle...